Because the end can’t come soon enough, this is a video of Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot performing some kung-fu on the sidewalk (previously: the G1 doing some jumping around like House Of Pain). You can buy your own G1 for around $16,000, although no word from Unitree if they’ll offer

Because we’ll have failed as a species as far as 8-year old me is concerned if we don’t have Rosey the Robot maids by the end of my lifetime, Unitree Robotics has released a new video of the mass production model of its G1 humanoid robot, which should be available

Presumably to present their robotic death army as less threatening than it actually is, this is a video of Sparkles, a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot that the company has dressed up in sparkly blue fur so we can all pretend it’s Blue from Blue’s Clues and not the harbinger

Because nothing quite screams robot apocalypse like a flying robotic spider, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s robotics department have developed just that, in the form of SPIDAR. What does SPIDAR stand for? Why ‘SPherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot’ of course! Jeez, use your brain.

Because how are robots going to overthrow humanity if we don’t make them tough, harbingers of the apocalypse IHMC Robotics has conspired with Boardwalk Robotics to develop a Nadia humanoid robot capable of maintaining its balance after getting shoved on a treadmill. Yeah, make it resilient then piss it off!

Because the robotic apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video from Chinese defense contractor Kestrel Defence featuring its Blood-Wing/Red Wing drone deploying a robotic war dog armed with a machine gun. So, if you were wondering what the beginning of the end looks like, this is definitely it.

This is a video from the recent Moscow Chess Open, where a chess-playing robotic arm (we’ll call it Robby Fischer) broke a 7-year old’s finger by pinning it to the board because the boy “did not give the robot enough time to respond to his most recent move.” Never rush

Because some people actual welcome the robot apocalypse with open, soon to be severed arms, some aspiring war criminal went and strapped a Russian PP-19 Vityaz submachine gun to the top of a radio controlled robot dog they bought off AliExpress for $3,000. As far as good ideas go, this